Photo gallery: Detroit home obliterated by gas explosion

DETROIT, MI -- Six people were hospitalized after a gas explosion in a home on Fairport in east Detroit about 8 p.m. Thursday.

Two children, 1 and 2, were critically injured and the blast threw one of the four adults across the street.

Neighbors said the home had been vacant until the group of six moved in two days ago. It's believed they were squatters and the explosion is the result of a leak that occurred when they attempted to illegally hook up the gas.

DTE spokesman Scot Simons said the utilities were shut off to the home in February.

See photos of the home about an hour after the blast and the following morning in the gallery above.